Five Things to Know About Ada Lovelace
The “Countess of Computing” didn’t just create the world’s first computer program—she foresaw a digital future
Listen to the First Computer-Made Tune on Alan Turing’s Synthesizer
From code-breaker to musical innovator
Police Request 3D-Printed Copy of a Dead Man’s Fingers to Unlock His Smartphone
No more guessing passwords
How You Wound Up Playing ‘The Oregon Trail’ in Computer Class
From the 1970s to 1990s, the government-owned Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium dominated the educational software market with more than 300 games
The Fight for the “Right to Repair”
Manufacturers have made it increasingly difficult for individuals or independent repair people to fix electronics. A growing movement is fighting back
The Code That Sent Apollo 11 to the Moon Just Resurfaced Online and Is Chock-Full of Jokes
Published on GitHub, the array of in-jokes, pop culture and Shakespeare asides in the comments on the code show the human side of the project
Wired Founder Kevin Kelly On the Technologies That Will Dominate Our Future
The optimistic futurist says we’ll share more, own less and spend far more time on our devices
Google’s Self-Driving Cars Are Learning to Recognize Cyclists’ Hand Signals
Cyclists, meet the nicest car you’ll ever share the road with
‘Hamilton’ Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda Joins the War Against Bots
Ticket-buying bots are snatching up seats and jacking up the price of concert and theater tickets
The World’s First Computer May Have Been Used To Tell Fortunes
Researchers have decoded more writing on the 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism and found it may have an astrological purpose
Emotikis and New Keyboards Bring Indigenous Cultures to Text Messaging
From Maori emojis to First Nations languages
Inside the Effort to Digitize Medieval Monks’ Chants
Scanning and interpreting centuries-old manuscripts is a challenge because musical notation wasn’t formalized yet
The U.S. Nuclear Program Still Uses Eight-Inch Floppy Disks
Technological change takes forever to boot up
This Computer Algorithm Transforms Movies Into Breathtaking Works of Art
These neural networks can make any moving image into a masterpiece from Picasso to van Gogh
Can Proteins From Living Cells Solve Problems That Vex Supercomputers?
When nature knows best
Tech Visionary Nicholas Negroponte Talks About the Future of Education
The act of writing a computer program, says the founder of MIT’s Media Lab, allows a child to learn about learning
“New” Rembrandt Created, 347 Years After the Dutch Master’s Death
The painting was created using data from more than 168,000 fragments of Rembrandt’s work
UC Irvine Becomes the First American Public University To Offer E-Sports Scholarships
The university jumps into the world of competitive gaming
Roald Dahl’s Iconic Illustrator Inspired This New Font
Quentin Blake’s handwriting has elements of spontaneity and joy
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